India and the Jones – Happy

There’s only you here. Naked and enough. Grow into your own flowers. A piano. A ladder. A choice. What do you want to be? Singer/songwriter India and the Jones asks this question, creating a beautiful mess of all she’s leaving behind in the video for her song Happy.

Alexa Velasquez is a Salvadorian filmmaker born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Her work spans across narrative, documentary and animation, often exploring mother wounds, catholic spirituality, cultural extinction – ideas that usually revolve around femmes of color confronting their demons and environments through the lens of distorted realities.